Thomas Sadoski Quotes

I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

I never like to judge the character. I just have to leave my feelings of pity, or fear, about a character - whatever I feel towards the character, I try to leave to one side. It's good to have them, but it doesn't help me. I can't act those things. I just to play the character as truthfully as I can.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

I try to put myself into whatever character I play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.